Special Jasper tax meeting today

Jasper County Council will meet Thursday at 3:30 p.m. in a special called committee meeting to discuss the tax rates in the county. The public is invited to attend, but no questions or comments will be allowed.

“What we’re going to do is revisit the tax, to whether the projection was too high, because of the complaints of so many people in the county, that we needed to go back and see if we did something wrong,” County Council chairman Samuel Gregory said. “Now I’m not saying that anybody did do anything wrong, but because I’m new, I want to be sure that we’ve done everything that we can to take the burden off of the people.”

“If we can download it some, then that’s what we’ll do. We may have to send new notices out, but if we can save any Jasper County citizen even a $100 or $200 dollars on this, that’s a savings, and people have been talking about this issue for some time. The public is more than welcome to sit in on this meeting.

“If it’s too high, and we can survive with the budget lower, then we’ll see what we can do,” Gregory said. “We’re not sure what’s going to happen. If we don’t do it, we’re ignoring the people.”